Database/Preservative/Silver Chloride
100% natural origin · ISO 16128

Is Silver Chloride natural?

Yes. Simple binary inorganic salt; both silver and chloride are mineral-origin under ISO 16128.

INCI nameSilver Chloride
CAS7783-90-6
FormulaAgCl · 143.32 Da
FunctionPreservative
FeedstockManufactured by precipitating a silver salt with a…

How we scored it

AgCl inorganic mineral salt → 1.0 (minerals and inorganic salts are natural origin)
What counts. ISO 16128-2 scores the atoms that remain in the final ingredient. Reagents, solvents, catalysts and protecting groups used during manufacture leave no mass behind and are not counted.

Where it comes from

Manufactured by precipitating a silver salt with a chloride source, or refined from silver ore. As an inorganic mineral salt it is natural origin though not renewable.

In plain English

A simple mineral salt of silver used as a preservative to limit microbial growth. It is an inorganic compound, so under natural-origin rules it counts fully as mineral, not petrochemical.

CosIng definition: Silver Chloride is the inorganic salt that conforms to the formula:

Structure

2D structure of Silver Chloride

chlorosilver

PubChem CID 24561 ↗

References

  1. 1ISO 16128-1:2016 and ISO 16128-2:2017 — Guidelines on technical definitions and criteria for natural and organic cosmetic ingredients and products. ISO, Geneva.
  2. 2Silver Chloride. PubChem CID 24561. National Center for Biotechnology Information. pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗
  3. 3SILVER CHLORIDE. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
  4. 4SILVER CHLORIDE. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=SILVER%20CHLORIDE